Biography
Elaine Showalter (b. 1941) is an American literary critic, feminist, and cultural commentator who pioneered feminist literary criticism in the U.S. with her concept of gynocritics, focusing on women as writers. A specialist in Victorian literature, she has explored themes like madness and hysteria in women’s writing. Showalter’s works include The Female Malady and Sexual Anarchy. She has been a television critic for People magazine and a BBC commentator, earning honors like the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Criticism by Elaine Showalter
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Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness, and the Responsibilities of Feminist Criticism
Hamlet Criticism
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Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness, and the Responsibilities of Feminist Criticism
William Shakespeare Criticism
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Guilt, Authority, and the Shadows of Little Dorrit.
Little Dorrit Criticism
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Tradition and the Female Talent: The Awakening as a Solitary Book
Kate Chopin Criticism
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The Death of the Lady (Novelist): Wharton's The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth Criticism
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Acts of Violence
David Mamet Criticism
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Little Women: The American Female Myth
Louisa May Alcott Criticism
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Rivers and Sassoon: The Inscription of Male Gender Anxieties
Siegfried Sassoon Criticism
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How to Be Good
Carol Shields Criticism
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Blood Sell
Francis Ford Coppola Criticism
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Decadent Queen
Rachilde Criticism
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Acts of Violence: David Mamet and the Language of Men
Oleanna Criticism
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The Word on the Street
Primary Colors Criticism
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Miss Marple at the MLA
Susan Gubar Criticism
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Selling Sugar and Spice
Susan Faludi Criticism
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Going Underground
Janet Malcolm Criticism
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Solitude, Work, Humility
Valerie Martin Criticism
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